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  E commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Probably Time to Start Worrying About Natural Disasters*

  In what way is population growth a cause of natural disasters? What the Good Intentions blogger meant to say, I think, is that population growth accounts in part for the increased natural-disaster casualties. (I also don't think that climate change is responsible for earthquakes (and thus tsunamis). I'll give benefit of the doubt to droughts, floods and typhoons, however.)
  
  So. I still want to know what caused the 100% increase of natural disasters in 20 years. My intuition says it's largely better monitoring, and therefore a question of definition, and attention. I'm all for publicizing the plight of the have-nots around the world, but I get twitchy when someone tries to paste a bad-thing label onto an unrelated bad thing. Makes us all look bad.